Category: Fucked Up

We’ve uncovered some excess inventory here at the expansive Matador Warehouse™ and that can only mean one thing, sale time. We’ve got 6 recent classics up for grabs at pretty much half off their normal retail price, but don’t wait too long because once these are gone, they are gone for good.

Earlier this week, Primavera Sound Barcelona’s lineup for 2015 was announce and we are taking up some serious real estate. For those making the pilgrimage this year for the festival’s 15th year anniversay, make note of the following:

As you’re probably aware, podcasts have become the go-to medium for tastemakers and cultural observers including but not limited to Adam Carolla, Louie Anderson and former WWE announcer Jim Ross. Throwing his hat into the ring this week is Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham with the debut of “Turned Out A Punk”, a weekly series in which he’ll be chatting with iconic characters from different corners of the entertainment world about how punk impacted them and vice versa. Episode #1 features a conversation with our dear friend & tireless supporter, Beggars Group founder and chairman Martin Mills. If you’re thinking this would’ve been the perfect time to ask Martin, “if Gary Numan and Mark E. Smith were both drowning and you could only save one, who would you choose?”, that’s why Damian’s doing a proper podcast and you’re sitting around coming up with unhelpful ideas. Leave this stuff to the professionals!
download or subscribe to “Turned Out A Punk” at iTunes.

A day prior to Fucked Up kicking off the next leg of North American dates in support of the monumental ‘Glass Boys’, Noisey are premiering the video for “The Art Of Patrons” (above), shot during the band’s recent trip to Brazil . Upcoming dates are below — be advised tomorrow night’s all ages show at NYC’s Irving Plaza is not yet sold out.

After losing some boxes of merch somewhere on the I-10 (IT’S A LONG STORY), Fucked Up roll into LA’s El Rey Theatre tonight, kicking off another 14 shows in support of album-of-the-year-candidate ‘Glass Boys’. In addition, there’s new 7″ singles for “Paper The House” and “Sun Glass” available at the shows and directly from The Matador Store :

Tomorrow, Friday June 6th at 11am EST you can hangout with Fucked Up. Damian, Mike and Josh (also known as half of Fucked Up) will be sitting down with Noisey‘s Andy Capper to talk about their new record ‘Glass Boys’ and answer any, yes ANY questions you desire. There might even be a special guest. We really mean might, they have not confirmed.

Submit questions early here and set your alarm to watch LIVE on Noisey+

Lots going on this weekend and it all kicks off TONIGHT with Kurt Vile and The Violators warming up Governors Ball with the Official Kickoff Party at Brooklyn Bowl. Advance tickets are sold out but there are a limited number of tickets being held at the door starting at… 6pm. That’s in a little more than an hour, get movin’.

This week will be the three year anniversary of David Comes to Life, and with that marker, Fucked Up today release the life-affirming and personal glimpse into how far the band has come with ‘Glass Boys‘. Two versions of the record are available for your pleasure. Check out the 1/2 speed drums on ‘Slow Boys’ (available as a bonus LP w/ early pressings of ‘Glass Boys’).

To celebrate this release, we have a few new things from the band for you today. Watch without much comment, a mini-documentary directed by Andy Capper and Scott Pierce, featuring many familiar faces:

Official video for “Sun Glass” (also directed by Andy Capper)

The band have also put together a playlist (the first of many to come) titled ‘Other Side of the Looking Glass Boys’ on Rdio. You can listen to that HERE. Here is what Jonah Falco had to say about the playlist:

“Mostly for these mixes i’ve tried to find songs which are equivalent to the musical thematics on the record more than the lyrical ones. The notes, the feels, the registers, and the sensations. But the good thing about the eternity of pop culture is that usually when guided in certain directions culturally, the brain tends to mine the same emotions and conclusions throughout the ages. This doesn’t have anything to do with being unimaginative, but more to do with the often vast ideological unity of rock and roll.

Glass Boys, vaguely distilled, is a record about looking back while trying to move forward. All of this music is from the past, but you should listen to it in the present and think of it as contemporary. If you’re patient enough to want to pay close attention, I think you’ll find a few cheeky similarities between grooves, riffs, and themes. If not, you’ve still got ten reasons to dance.”

The new Fucked Up LP/CD/digital album ‘Glass Boys’ is officially available one week from tomorrow (one week from today in Europe) and can currently be heard in full via the auspices of Pitchfork Advance. In addition, the 1/2 speed drums version of the album (available as a bonus LP w/ early pressings of ‘Glass Boys’) is being streamed from start to finish by Exclaim.

Earlier this morning, “Led By Hand”, the 2nd song leaked/dropped etc. from Fucked Up’s upcoming ‘Glass Boys’ LP/CD/digital album —the band’s 4th full-length and the eagerly anticipated followup to 2011’s ‘David Comes To Life’ — was posted to the band’s site. You can obtain an MP3 download of the song by following Fucked Up’s frantic-yet-highly-insightful Twitter account (@fuckedup). Featuring a vocal cameo by J Mascis, “Led By Hand” is another taste of what caused one (highly) seasoned observer to say, “where previous albums fucked with your head, ‘Glass Boys’ fucks with your heart.”

To which I can only add, I think this one fucks with your head, too.

Order ‘Glass Boys’ in the format of your choice with a limited edition tote bag, available exclusively from The Matador Store.
Preorder from iTunes (includes an instant download of “Paper The House”)

Fucked Up’s ‘Chemistry Of Common Life’ (2008 and ‘David Comes To Life’ (2011) were as conceptually ambitious as any rock albums in recent memory ; ‘Glass Boys’ while a more personal work in terms of subject matter, is the result of 13 months spent in a succession of U.S. and Canadian studios with the assistance of Bill Skibbe and Leon Taheny. But while we’re tempted to make a very big deal about how amazing the recording is (the guitar trio of Mike Haliechuk, Ben Cook, and Josh Zucker have delivered their most powerful & multi-dimensional performances to date), the real story’s in the songs : with vocalist Damian Abraham leaving-it-all-on-the-floor (apologies for the sports analogy), Fucked Up are tackling tougher questions about themselves, their lives and where this is all going. Our modestly compensated blurb author called ‘Glass Boys’, “a blazing, titanic, ultimately triumphant rock album…a heart-expanding, life-affirming piece of work.” I still need to check what WebMD says about heart-expansion, but other than that, I think he nailed it.

(photo by Brendan George Ko)

Preorder the album now from the Matador Store. A limited double vinyl edition of the album available through the Matador store and independent retailers will include a bonus LP that features Jonah Falco’s half-time drums ( two separate drum tracks were recorded for ‘Glass Boys’, one of them in half-time — if that sounds kinda complex, wait ’til you hear both at the same time).

We’re also offering ‘Glass Boys’ in the format of your choice with a limited edition tote bag, available exclusively from The Matador Store.
Preorder from iTunes (includes an instant download of “Paper The House”)

The following is a (nearly) complete list of what our dear friends EMA, Fucked Up, Perfume Genius, Kurt Vile and The Young are doing in Austin, TX this week (on stage, anyway). Please be advised that events marked “*” are considered official SXSW presentations and will likely require a badge, wristband or cover charge for entry (unless you are so incredibly good looking that such requirements are always waived on your behalf). I wish you a very pleasant week in my town of residence and thank you in advance for not parking in front of my fucking driveway.
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Oakland, CA’s Tank Crimes will be releasing the 6th edition in Fucked Up’s Zodiac Series this April 15 with a 12″/CD/digital EP of ‘Year Of The Dragon’. The titular, epic A-side clocks in at 17 minutes long and is backed by covers of Cardboard Brains’ “I Wanna Be A Yank” and The Ugly’s “Disorder”. The first pressing of the 12″ is said to include a 6-minute, edited version of “Year Of The Dragon” on a 7″ flexi-disc.

We’ll have an announcement to make about a new, full-length Fucked Up album on Matador very soon.

the latest entry in our 2013 Singles Going Home Alone 7″‘s, “A Different World Now”, from Toronto’s SMARTBOYS (Warren Calbeck, Jonah Falco, Steve Foster, Mike Haliechuk, Tim Westberg) is currently in the mail to persons who’ve subscribed. If you’re not a member of that august body, you can still join in.